Today I incorporated three of the tips given in Michael Pollock’s Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Tips for Wordpress. Although Michael lists eight tips I have only incorporated what I feel are the bare essentials.

The tips that I incorporated into Blog Smart Resources are as follows:
1. Make your post titles live links. This is done by going to the main index template and the page template replacing <h2><?php the_title(); ?></h2>
with <h2><a href=”<?php the_permalink() ?>” rel=”bookmark” title=”Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>”><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
2. Optimize your permalinks. This is a simple change to make. In your WP admin panel, click on the “Options” tab, then the “Permalinks” sub-tab, and choose the option just below the “Default” permalink option, and
3. Optimize your page titles by going to the header template and replacing <title><?php bloginfo(’name’); ?><?php wp_title(); ?></title> with <h2><a href=”<?php
the_permalink() ?>” rel=”bookmark” title=”Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>”><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>. Make sure that you leave out any # symbols.

On the plus side this will in the future increase search engine optimization. Unfortunately for the time being with the permalinks being changed the PlugIMs and Sphinns that I registered and the ones that I received from other people will not register. Despite losing these tags and some others I am looking forward to see how my posts are indexed with Google in the near future. I expect amazing results.

Profitable Search Engine Marketing With Blogs by Keith Stieneke

If you are involved in any type of affiliate program or online network marketing program then you should really be using a blog or several blogs to help you to market your opportunity and products. There are several reasons for using blogs for marketing and in this article these reasons are explained.

Stripped down a blog is nothing more than a website. However, what is it about blogs that make them a perfect tool for making money online?

A large part of this is that a blog offers an easy to use content management system that allows for quick updating in chronological order.

Because blogs are usually heavy on content and organized in an intuitve fashion their structure is perfect for producing revenue. Blogs are easy to produce as content based websites complete with the potential of well targeted pages.

Blogs have a definite advantage over traditional websites in that content can be added easily. Adding new content to a static website can be both problematic in terms of design and also difficult due to time restraints. This is an important factor to remember as your success will depend in large measure on your ability to add new content for your visitors.

Blogging solves many problems associated with traditional websites. The most common is the hassle that having to write content and then convert it or pay to have it converted into html. Since all major blog platforms allow users to create new posts and add them easily with a few clicks of the mouse webmaster can add new content in minutes. Blogs are content driven and serve to build relationships with search engines.

Search engines such as Google, Yahoo and MSN reward information sites that are full of information, by giving them better positioning in search results and indexing these sites quickly. This makes these sites soar to the top of the search engine rankings. Blogs also maintain a stickiness as they draw return visitors to a website far more likely.

In conclusion using blogs to promote your affiliate marketing programs or network marketing programs and the opportunities and products that they represent may be the best business decision that you ever make. You can constantly add updates to your blog and therefore communicate with prospects. If you are involved in online money making ventures and as of yet don’t have your own blog I encourage you to start one A.S.A.P.

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Keith Stieneke is an Internet marketer and professional blogger who publishes several informative websites. These include but are not limited to http://www.blogsmart-resources.com and http://www.opportunityassistance.com

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Seth Godin is an icon among people who have been blogging for some time. When he talks about blogging and web promotion people listen. When he writes about those same subjects people read. He is probably best known online for being the force behind Squidoo.

I recently did a Google search titled traffic to your blog and found several interesting sites and a lot of good advice much of which I will be sharing here shortly. But what impressed me that high among the results that I found was a post by Seth Godin in his blog Seth Godin’s Blog that was titled How To Get Traffic For Your Blog. The blog post lists 56 ways to get traffic to your blog. Some of these are common sense, some are innovative and some are ideas that I don’t agree with.

Whatever Seth does, whether I agree with all of his methods, however manages to get him traffic as this post has a Google PR rank of 5 and it was easily found when doing the search that I did on Google. I would highly recommend reading this post for ideas on how to get traffic to your blog.

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