“I love my new facelift,” my blog said to me this morning. “Where’ve you been all night?”
“Oh, just catching up on support emails and tickets. I’m getting my energy back so I’m on my first 28 hours straight awake since October. It’s fun.”
“You need to go to bed. Ooooo – first, let me tell you what happened!”
“What?” I eyed him suspiciously. (Yes, my blog is a he, too, just like Google and Yahoo. A girl’s got to have male company at work.)
“Don’t get mad. It’s good news.”
“WHAT?? I’m sleepy!”
That’s the Zero Cost Traffic Ezine I’m talking about.
Yep, the Zero Cost Traffic Ezine is Now Online….
In this issue:
Ultimate Tag Warrior
http://www.neato.co.nz/ultimate-tag-warrior/
I can’t say enough good things about this plug-in. Mainly because it makes my blog more “findable” by both search engines and people who follow tags. Plus, the tag cloud it optionally creates increases my page views – instead of sending my visitors off into cyberspace, it sends them to a page that is a collection of posts I’ve written on that subject.
What makes it so killer isn’t just that it has the potential to be a huge money maker for your blog. It’s really about making your blog super easy to manage. You can assign a keyword – any keyword – to a link. From then on, any time you write about that word or phrase, it’s automatically linked to any link you want. You can change the link or the word, and if it was linked to something else before, it reverts back.
I don’t know about you, but even I had trouble with all Google’s new updates and new features from the summer up until now. So I’m going to make myself a little guide of all the new things I want to use and test out that I haven’t had time to do. I have to do a video series for another project I have anyway, one I meant to do like, two months ago?
So if I was to share my observations – what would you most want me to write about? Are all the office tools important to you at all, or do you just want traffic related items? Or even webmaster and traffic related items?
You have about a week to get your answer in.
The Question: How Can Anyone Stay on top of the Search Engines when they keep changing their systems of ranking?
The Short Answer:
Stop betting on just one horse and spread your risk around.
The Long Answer:
I’m writing a guide about that now, but in the series that is following, I’m going to talk about just a few tips.
1- Approach the Search Engines with a strategy that caters to them.
I don’t just mean get lots of links and use your keywords in the right places. I’m saying that most people try to build towards gaining one major keyword position, and if they lose that spot in an update, their sales and traffic come tumbling down.
You know sometimes when you browse around the Net and you see something really brave…. admirably so… but almost … foolhardy in its braveness? Almost a little…. dangerous? But so compelling you can’t keep your eyes off it?
I know, it hardly ever happens. But I got an email from a good friend of mine, and I have to admit that I got sucked in and good. I couldn’t help it. I love seeing original thought, and watching things sprout from infancy into mega-stardom. It’s why we watch all those reality shows, right? The ones that have winners especially. 
This one’s a real behind-the-scenes Web 2.0 company launch. And this is probably going to be HUGE. You know when you see something that isn’t a Google-killer, but you wish Google would buy it? That’s what I mean.
Just watch this video, and tell me you’re not hooked.
Nice gem I found about through Kyle’s Cove, and he raises an interesting question:
Search Engine Optimization has been a popular topic over the past few years. Does it matter or not? I hear that argument more than the debate over the best way to optimize your blog’s findability.
In my opinion, it is important. The problem is, the major search engines are constantly changing their algorithms, causing SEO experts to constantly adjust their strategies.
Personally, I don’t think that last part is necessarily true – not that search engines don’t change their algorithms, maybe more than necessary, they do. I just don’t think it’s necessarily a Problem. I think the strategy most of us take, especially when we’re new to do it yourself SEO, is the real problem.
I wrote Blog About This to answer the first part of that question. Then the question was modified with the second part to help people learn to manage multiple blogs. I did a seminar turned video for this called The Art of Speed Blogging – a project I meant to finish last year, but just kept growing out of control.
From those two experiences, I found out the hard way that there isn’t one quick answer to this question. But I do have a few tips.
You can:
Tinu Abayomi-Paul
I build traffic systems to increase the profitibility of your website. You can implement them yourself with one of our how-to manuals, below, or you can email us at support@asktinu.com for a free consultation, to evaluate your site for a custom solution.
Morgan and Cindy Lighter
Cindy is our organizational whiz. Morgan is the author of our most popular column, Tool Time Fridays.
Latest from Blog Critics |  |  |  |  |  |  |
 |  |  |
