As with all things Apple, throughout the year rumours and speculations surface regarding what the next device would look like. It does not matter, then if the current version has just released or not even released, yet in a particular country. The rumour mills continue to churn out information about what's likely to follow.

NOTE: I am having serious doubts about Google sitemap for Blogger (blogspot) as we have no access to the servers and thus cannot do a true Google sitemap. The method given to us by Blogger is a workaround which uses the feed as a Google sitemap. I don't know how effective it is, especially if you set your feed to "short". There are others expressing doubts, and I have no time to do a proper research. So read this post with a pinch of salt.

What is XML Sitemap?
In general, this is a list of URLs for your website in a form of XML file (it also known as Google Sitemap because it was introduced first by Google). Besides that it allows you to include additional information about each URL such as the date it was last updated, how often it changes, and how important it is. XML format ensures that this information can be easily processed on different kinds of computers, applications and systems, so Search engines (Google, Yahoo, Bing, Ask, AOL etc) won't have any problems with understanding your sitemap files.

Your site is only as strong as it’s weakest link. Depending on your traffic development strategy, it’s possible to eclipse and exceed traffic from Google, Yahoo, MSN combined using alternative high-traffic funneling strategies such as web 2.0 based social media and links from propagating exposure through RSS Feeds and articles.

Many businesses wonder, what is the purpose of having a blog? Depending on your stance and marketing objective, blogs (short for web logs) are great open source tools (known as content management systems) that if wielded properly can be instrumental to SEO and organic search engine positioning.

Aside from SEO (Search Engine Optimization), which delivers a different type of traffic, RSS feeds (RSS stands for really simple syndication) have the ability to broadcast your message very similar to a press release to attract a broader array of prospects to peruse your content, products or services.

Today’s SEO tip is a link building strategy based on how to promote keyword stemming (ranking a page for multiple keywords).

What’s the difference between a new website and a powerhouse domain ranking for competitive keyword-specific rankings? The answer, SEO, content, time and links…

3 SEO Tips for On Page SEO

This posts highlights the SEO technique of leveraging your websites inherent domain authority by (1) minimizing hops within the website by keeping site architecture flat (2) capping outbound links on internal pages through using javascript navigation and optimizing on page contextual links and (3) using 301 redirects for SEO to recycle link-flow to new landing pages.

Whether you like it or not, search engine optimization for most bloggers is one of the most significant sources of traffic. When you approach it the right way, traffic from natural search will feel like a bonus.

If you want to build a successful blog with real solid content, one that people would link to voluntarily, you should take the whitehat SEO path.

Dec 10, 2011

SEO Tips for 2011

To kick-off the new year in style, we would like to share a few useful and practical SEO tips for 2011. Each keyword should be carefully considered as a business investment, not just from a viewpoint of  a trophy phrase or ranking conquest to quell your competition.

Have you tried many things without much success? Did you ever wonder why a strategy fail to work for you while it always produces wonder for others?

A tweet came into my TweetDeck a few days ago. Obviously, having read my web pages, someone thought I was making the process of building and growing a blog unbelievably simple.

I didn’t understand if he meant it in a good way or not, but…

Bloggers should have heard about trackback, pingback or refback, but they are not well understood. If you use Gogle to find information about it, a lot of those web results are misleading. Not that they contain false information, but those pages often represent older specifications.

Time is tight but bloggers still need to drive traffic and customers. This article covers the top 7 traffic and conversion strategies every busy blogger and web publisher may use to leverage time. Results, as in quality of traffic and customers, are very likely comparable to other more costly and more time consuming strategies you’ve seen so far.

If you are a freelance SEO expert or self employed web developer wanting to start your very own SEO business, then this is the perfect solution.

When I got started with my first blog, I scoured the Internet every day to find news and subscribe to RSS feeds. Just by highlighting news and link to them, I could grow my traffic level to several thousands every month. Not bad at all, considering that I knew nothing much about blog promotion.

Want to improve SEO on a Blogspot Blogger blog? This tutorial discusses how bloggers can optimize their blog using SEO techniques to improve indexing of their Blogger Blogspot blog and achieve a better ranking in search engine results.

Everyone who still has a small dose of sense would want to build a blog empire. The thought about having multiple streams of income and assets distributed all over the web appears very nice. It makes us feel accomplished.

However, unless you have a solid and large team of bloggers, you may just give up that thought. By focusing on just one or two blogs, you are more likely to put up value and attract readers. That’s why you need to shift you vision from an empire to building blog traffic and audience.