Do I believe in SEO? Absolutely I do. Do I believe in link popularity? Absolutely I do. Do I believe in targeted keywords? Absolutely I do. Do I think it’s the most important thing? No, I don’t. I am going to reveal to you the true method to a successful website on the Internet!
Being well ranked in Google on specific keywords is good. Incoming links, both reciprocal links and one-way links are great. But it will only really pay dividends after you’ve focused on success, the true way. (more…)
In today’s article I am going to discuss something that *hopefully* was taught to you at a very young age. For me, this dates back to my earliest memories of being a child. In your life, how many times have you heard someone say, “You must share that with others.”? I’m pretty sure it’s more than you can count!
Well, what’s old is new again. Sharing is an excellent way to achieve better search engine rankings as well as additional traffic. Right now, this is what I’m doing, I’m sharing my idea with you in hopes that you will visit my web site and enjoy the excellent content that I have on it. (more…)
Today’s article is going to discuss my top 5 ways to gain new traffic, did I mention that they are all FREE! Because each are free, they all take a few minutes of work on a regular basis. After a short while, you should hopefully gain a following and not require doing them anymore.
The top 5 reasons are:
If you are like me and are creating personal web sites, one of the best ways to gain traffic to your site is through SEO. I won’t go into detail here as I want to focus on how to setup a route in CakePHP, but having SEO friendly URLs will go a long way in helping.
First let’s define what a “route” is. In CakePHP it allows you to add a different path to access a specific controller and/or function in that controller.
For example, let’s say I want to create a CMS. I might create a controller called “StaticContent” and then place a function for each page a client would like to create. I’m pretty sure I would start getting a lot of calls saying, “Jamie, why is my URL http://www.myaddress.com/StaticContent/myCustomPage?” So to avoid those calls, we can use a route to make it more accessible and SEO friendly. (more…)
I thought I would follow-up my “How to get indexed by Google in ONE hour” article with my top 5 SEO (search engine optimization) tips.
The following 5 items are by no means in order of importance, it’s best to try the ones that you think you can do first. When you are implementing the following 5 SEO tips, it’s important to not rush anything. When you are creating a web site and writing content, it’s important to take your time, write good content, read it, update it to better market your keywords, and read it again to ensure you are marketing your keywords to the best of their potential. (more…)