Blog SEO Tips: SEO-Friendly Content is the Key
What is SEO-friendly content and why is it important? Where is the limit between helpful and spam? The answers to these questions are essential to producing high quality, high ranking web content.
What is SEO-friendly content?
Basically, SEO-friendly content is the type of content that is both interesting and helpful for your blog readers as well as attractive for search engine spiders, which leads to better rankings.
Think of this kind of content as the intersection of publishing high quality posts with the search user’s need to find that relevant, quality content. It’s the most basic search engine promotion you could do.
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Simple Balance 2.0 – Free Simple WordPress Theme
Here it is folks, Simple Balance 2.0 – a free, simple WordPress theme with enough options to make it “premium-like”.
After launching the first version (1.0) in July, I’ve decided that the next release should not be an intermediary version, but rather a real, meaningful update. And that’s how Simple Balance 2.0 was born.
Simple Balance 2.0 is launched under a new slogan: “More Power. More Style. Your Style!” Why? Because that’s what it has to offer! More control over it’s options, advertising space, layout and color, and with each future update you’ll be able to tweak it more and more to your own style!
Let’s take a look at what Simple Balance 2.0 has to offer
Many new options have been added, most of which you can adjust through the theme’s brand new “Control Panel”.
- An extensive and inclusive theme control panel;
- Widget-ready sidebars;
- Top advertising space (468×60 pixels);
- Sidebar advertising space: Up to 8 small square banners (125×125 pixels);
- Individual settings for each banner you add:
- Custom banner URL;
- Do Follow / No Follow witch;
- Title and alternate text;
- Open in a new window or same window
- Master switch (on/off) for every Ad Zone;
- Variable layout structure:
- Centered content;
- Right-aligned content;
- 5 new additional color schemes (more released monthly);
- Option to display the default left sidebar image, use a custom one or hide it;
- Custom feed URL;
- Valid cross-browser tested XHTML and CSS;
- SEO smart coding;
- Works with WordPress 2.6.2 (tested starting with WordPress 2.5);
- Any many more options that I’ll let you discover.
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Simple Balance 2.0 – Premium can still be free!
Yesterday I promised I’d tell you what I’ve been working on lately. Well, Simple Balance version 2.0 has just got out of development stage and for today will be in a testing stage across a few WordPress versions. If all goes well, tomorrow you’ll be able to download it and take it for a test drive. For now, version 1.0 is still available for downloads.
And because I’m convinced that good quality can still be delivered for free sometimes, this new version of Simple Balance gives you just about enough control of its settings, but don’t take my word for it. See for yourself in the following screenshots.
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Blogsessive’s Group Writing Project & Contest
Update: Contest is closed. It’s time for the jury to play its part. All entries will be made public with the contest winners announcement post, next Monday. Thanks to everyone who submitted their entries to this group writing project. It will be a very interesting reading!
The end of September brings a killer contest on Blogsessive under the form of a group writing project for all blog owners, and, since this is a killer contest, your skill can win you some killer prizes. Here’s what the contest winner will get:
- One identity package – logo, business card and letterhead design – by yours truly;
- One “Personal license” for the Edge premium WordPress theme, created by Blog Design Studio that as you probably have guessed, offers blog design services;
- 500 business cards printed using your newly won design by U Printing, company that offers business cards and business cards printing services.
Also, there will be 2 consolation prizes, each of 250 business cards by the same U Printing.
What is a group writing project and how to participate?
A group writing project brings together bloggers with the same interests, all writing and publishing blog posts on a given theme/topic. The topic is usually decided by the one that initiated the project, which is me in our case.
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September Contest Announcement
As some of you might recall, last week I’ve promised to launch a contest today. Unfortunately, there are 2 more little things that need to be set straight regarding the jury (yes, there will be a jury this time) and I find myself in the position of asking for you patience until tomorrow.
And, to repay your patience, tomorrow I’ll also make public something I’ve been working on lately that should sweep some of you of your feet. Don’t ask what it is – it’s a surprise – but if you’re following me on Twitter, you might have already guessed what I’m speaking of.
Until tomorrow and enjoy reading Blogsessive’s past articles in case you’ve missed something!
5 Surefire Ways to Piss Me Off on StumbleUpon
Every blogger concerned about his blog’s exposure and traffic levels has a StumbleUpon account, right? Oh, you don’t? Then you should. But never mind that, let me tell you about some less happier experiences on StumbleUpon.
I’m one of those StumbleUpon users that usually discovers and votes on pages when he has time, when he finds something really interesting, or to help out his SU friends. But sometimes, being friendly and willing to help is not enough, sometimes, somebody has to take it over the top. Here are 5 guaranteed ways to piss me off on StumbleUpon.
Method One
You visit my profile, do a bit of research and message me, telling me how much you love my stumbles and my blog, and how much you’d love to be SU buddies. Flattering right? After reading the message I’m checking if that person has added me as a friend and I find that he didn’t.
So why would you expect me to add you first when you’re the one approaching me? Add me, and If I’m convinced I might add you back. That’s how it goes.
Method Two
Starts exactly like method one, messages and flattering included. Only that this time, the user added you as a friend. That’s pretty nice, let’s add him/her back, which you do. Two days later – surprise! – you’ve been removed by that user from the friends list. This basically means you’re his fan now, while he/her is some kind of a SU god. Dirty move right? You know what to do next.
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Blog SEO Tips: Boost Your Backlinks With Mixx
It’s a known fact that the number and quality of backlinks a page/site gets will affect its search rankings. SEO copywriters have always struggled to write not only search engine friendly content, but also creative content that would make people want to link back. Others chose the easier, but more expensive, way of the “link marketplaces”, such as TLA.
In what follows I’m going to explain one easy enough method to boost your number of backlinks and also improve your blog’s Technorati rank. All with the help of Mixx.
Initial considerations
Those of you familiar with social media, social networking and bookmarking services have surely heard of Mixx and are most probably registered users. For those that are not familiar with this service, I strongly suggest you try it.
Not necessarily because of the traffic that it could provide – which is currently way below services like Digg, Reddit or Stumble Upon – but mainly because is one of the few services that are still not “infected” with trolls, down-voters and spammers. On Mixx you can still find content worth reading and bookmarking and also, Mixx is of great help when it comes to what I’m about to share with you.
How can Mixx boost your backlinks and Technorati rank?
The answer is simple. All bookmarks added to Mixx are “do follow” links. Sure, they are marked with rel=”bookmark”, but that does not negatively affect the link.
So, what could you do to get and make better use of those links?
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How NOT to Run a Blog Contest
Recently I’ve been involved in blog contest and the situation I’ve been put in was anything but pleasant. I’m not going to use names since all I want to do is to tell you what you should be aware of when running or sponsoring a contest. The following story is an example on how not to run a blog contest.
The story
Since I’ve started Blogsessive I got in touch with a lot of people that share similar interests with me and so I came to “virtually” meet the character in my story. I must admit that I enjoy the way he writes and the energy he seamed to put in the things he got involved in.
Based on that, when I learned that he launched a new project and held a contest to create a bit of buzz in the blogosphere, I offered my help as a sponsor with one of the things I really enjoy doing – logo design. And not one logo, but four identity packages containing logo, business card and letterhead design. I’m sure I don’t need to tell you how expensive such things are when they don’t come as a prize.
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Domain Names for Bloggers (11)
Another episode of “Domain Names for Bloggers” and another list of available domains for you to choose and start blogging with the best name!
General & Niche Domain Names
PhotoblogGuide.comSuperTechniques.com- EstateProspects.com
- GreatRumor.com
- SaveHumor.com
UrbanFables.com- BloggingBonus.com
- MultimediaDebate.com
- PoliticalABC.com
- PoliticallyOK.com
- PrivateGadgets.com
- TravellingIdea.com
For further help, please read the How to Register a Domain Name for Your Blog article on Blogsessive.
Also, if you find this post helpful and you register any of the domains above, please leave a comment with the registered domains, so that I can erase them from the list, and it would be nice to know that one of my readers registered them.
Top 5 Reasons Why Blogging Rocked Our World
Have you ever wondered what was it that made blogging turn into such a mass phenomenon, with billions of bloggers and readers spread all over the world? What’s behind the huge mass appeal? Sure, in the beginning it was a simple and accessible way to maintain an online diary, but that’s definitely not a powerful enough factor to affect the shaping of the future of the online environment.
The more I though about it, five reasons began shaping in my mind, strong enough to set things in motion and to rock our world. Read on and find out what these reasons are and don’t forget to share your opinion with me after you finish reading.
Blogging gave us back “reading”
In a world ran by television shows, Hollywood movies, adverts, gaming and cheap entertainment, blogging gave back “reading” to people.
Sure, some of us never gave up on reading. Some of us still devour literature, but I’m sure you’ll agree that less and less people still do that. Most reading we do these days is magazines and newspapers, and even those are affected by the low interest in the actual concept of reading.
Even so, blogging stepped in at the right moment, offering a wide range of topics, opinions and voices. Nowadays, we follow hundreds of blogs daily, read enormous amounts of text blocks and continue to train our reading skills. Ain’t that wonderful?
Blogging gave us back “writing”
Most of us gave up creative writing back when we finished school, no matter how far we went. With blogging, we (re)discovered skills and interests long forgotten. First, a bit shy, but more concise, meaningful and powerful with each post published.
Sure, we can’t compare to Tolstoy, Voltaire or even modern authors like Stephen King, but we do it. We do our best and try to improve our skills.
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