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Local SEO - tips for targeting multiple locations

When trying to rank highly in Google, it is extremely important for small business to target locations. For example, it would be far more beneficial for a bakery store with a single store based in Portsmouth to target long-tail keywords like ‘bakery Portsmouth’ rather than ‘cakes’ or ‘gingerbread men.’ However, there still seems to be quite a bit of confusion as to what SEO strategies are best for franchise owners with stores in multiple locations. This [...]

 

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Geotag your website

Geotagging (also written as GeoTagging) is the process of adding geographical identification metadata to various media such as a Geotagged photograph or video, websites, SMS messages, or RSS feeds and is a form of geospatial metadata. – WikiPedia When applied to websites you basically show your visitors and search engines where the post comes from and optionally who the target audience is. You can take it one step further by [...]

 

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World Project News Network - Social Voting

A while back I blogged about WPNewsNet, a free Social Voting System, where you could vote on the most popular WordPress Related articles on the web. Over the last couple of weeks, as WPNewsNet grew, a lot of complaints were received regarding the lack of topics available for submission. As such WPNewsNet decided to re-brand itself as World Project News Network, which will have more topics, which include gaming, technology, [...]

 

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South African Blog Directory

I’ve been going all South African blogging crazy the last couple of days, but I promise this should be my last post before putting some internationally relevant blogging resources up. I’ve just added a new South African Blogs category to our blogging directory, meant for all South African blogs, no matter the topic. You can submit your blog here, for free.  

 

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Tumblr SEO Resources

Tumblr has a very large user base, but still lacks in “outside resources” such as more SEO optimized free themes and SEO tutorials. Below you will find a bunch of really nice Tumblr SEO related resources, which includes, tips, tricks and some other nifty info. Let me know if you have a suggestion for the list. Remember you can start off you Tumblr SEO by listing your Tumblr in our [...]

 

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Non-Techie WordPress Tips for Beginner Bloggers

WordPress Tutorials can get very technical and more often than not is geared towards the more experienced WordPress users. This tutorial is for the non-techie, existing and new, WordPress users who would like to improve their blog, by focusing on key aspects of blogging with WordPress. 1. Content Niche: When you start your new blog, you first need to decide which topic your going to focus on. Many of us [...]

 

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Top 100 Free Blog Directories for 2011

Submitting your blog to link directories is a great way to get your name out there, increase your traffic and generate a few backlinks. The Below List is from the BloggerTrix blog entry : http://www.bloggertrix.com/2011/02/top-50-free-blog-directories-by-page.html The first 50: DMOZ page rank 9 Jayde page rank 6 SuperPages.ca page rank 6 Patient UK page rank 6 BestCatalog.net page rank 6 Gimpsy page rank 6 ExactSeek page rank 7 Bizweb page rank [...]