Sales Pages in WordPress? Yes, You Can!

Once upon a time, many moons ago, I had a bright idea. As with many of my bright ideas, I didn’t have the time at that moment to execute said bright idea, so it bounced around in the back of my head for awhile.
What was my bright idea? To figure out a way to [...]

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13 Plugins Make My WordPress World Go ‘Round

In honor of Thursday Thirteen, here are 13 WordPress plugins that I use and love. What are YOUR favorite plugins?

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DIY SEO: Step 7 – The Wrap-Up and the Handy Checklist

This is the ninth and final post in our DIY SEO for WordPress series.

Whew! You made it! You rock!

By now you have some serious DIY SEO for WordPress tools in your toolbox to help you get the attention of the search engines. By no means are you now an SEO expert – sheesh, neither am I – but you’ve got the basics now and let me tell you what – that’ll take you far.

I know all this might seem a bit overwhelming when you think about applying all these tips and tricks to your posts, but I’ve made a handy little checklist to help you.

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DIY SEO: Step 6 – Commenting

Commenting is one of the easiest ways to drive traffic to your site. Assuming you’ve got great content waiting for your visitors when they get there, it’s also a great way to initiate conversations and build community in your target market. You can use commenting to get the attention of and build relationships with other bloggers which might turn into JV partnerships down the road. And of course, allowing comments on your own blog gives your visitors, customers and referrals a way to connect with you and give you feedback about your content, products and services.

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DIY SEO: Step 4 – Keyword Density

This is the sixth post in our DIY SEO for WordPress series.

Short, but illuminating exercise today: determining your keyword density.

What’s Keyword Density?

Keyword density is how often your keywords appear in your text relative to other words. Let’s say you’ve got a 500-word post and you’ve used your keyword 25 times – that’s a keyword density of 5% (25/500 = 5%) – and that’s the target that’s most widely recommended. Any more than that and you run the risk of Google thinking you’re “stuffing”…

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DIY SEO: Step 0 – Keyword Selection

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This is the second post in our DIY SEO for WordPress series.
Compile Your Keyword List
Write down all the keywords from the list you generated using the Google AdWords Keyword Tool that have high search volumes and low advertiser competition. I won’t try to give you cutoffs or thresholds, because every [...]

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Congratulations, Christa!

Today I just have to crow a little bit, give Christa of Giggle On! a virtual high five, and to point out for the rest of you that you don’t have to be a geeky-programmer-type like me to realize your SEO goals.
Christa made the #1 position in Google for her main keyword phrase two days [...]

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