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Google SEO Starter Guide

Lex G — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:47:30 +0000

Improving Search Engine Ranking by implementing basic seo techniques has always been fairly easy, so I’m not surprised that Google announced an SEO Starter Guide on November 12th. (Thanks to Michaela Lica for bringing that to my attention.) In this downloadable .pdf file, Google provides the reader with information about the most basic Search Engine Ranking [...]

Where to Grab Your Brand Real Estate ?

Lex G — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:54:03 +0000

One of the most surprising mistakes that I see web site owners and sometimes even experienced web masters make is not checking domain name availability and grabbing their brand real estate when they have the chance. What I am talking about are not only top level domain names (f.e. problogger.com and problogger.net etc.), but free [...]

Understanding the Power of Blogs

Lex G — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:40:49 +0000

Putting the role that blogging nowadays plays into perspective, from my viewpoint, one of the interesting things is how blogs have evolved into multipurpose communication and marketing tools. Blogs are not only used as a chronologically categorized publishing of information anymore, but they’ve also become effective marketing and branding extensions for relevant third-parties. These third parties [...]

Smart Content Writing - 5 Reasons why you Should

Lex G — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 19:31:00 +0000

Now, I don’t like to repeat myself too often, but here we go. If you read my tutorial on how to Build an Optimal Keyword Attack Formula, then you will have come across a section about ‘Smart Content Writing‘. In this post I’d like to talk about how my previous post (SEO - Injecting new Keywords [...]

SEO - Injecting new Keywords and Phrases

Lex G — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 11:09:09 +0000

At the time that I started to write Strategic SEO - Building an Optimal Keyword Attack Formula I was also doing keyword research in order to set up a correct structure for this blog. As you can see, one of the topic categories on newmediatype is Search Engine Optimization. One of the things that I [...]

Choosing an Ecommerce Solution - Hosted or Stand Alone ?

Lex G — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:50:32 +0000

Ecommerce in its most simple form can be defined as buying / selling products or services with help of electronic means. One of the most used electronic means is of course the internet, which has evolved as one of the most important commercial platforms. As a result of this amazing development, many businesses, ranging from small [...]

SEO Book on Wordpress 2.5 - Free Download

Lex G — Mon, 19 May 2008 19:35:23 +0000

Up until now I’ve managed to avoid the concrete and more basic information in regard search engine optimization (seo) on this blog. This means that most posts on newmediatype, such as the optimal keyword attack formula or common sense and seo are based on a more strategic approach rather than, let’s say, an ‘operational’ one. Though [...]

Making Money Online - Your Favourite Ways

Lex G — Thu, 01 May 2008 00:06:21 +0000

There are many different ways of making money online and nowadays it’s not only full time internet entrepreneurs or online business owners who are earning cash online, but even stay at home mom’s who started a blog about their hobby without even having any prior online experience. Since making money online always has been and still [...]

Video Comments for Wordpress Blogs

Lex G — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:15:48 +0000

It seems ‘little big’ changes are following each other up quicker then ever. After Google introduced the Sliding Adsense Ads I came across a post on DailyBlogTips today that announces the new possibility of video’s in blog comments. This is an option that is added through a new Wordpress Plugin by Seesmic. One of the first [...]

5 Strategic SEO Tips for Online Businesses

Lex G — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:41:22 +0000

Partially being a freelance web consultant and SEO being one of the services that I provide to some of my clients I am often surprised by the bad practices which marketing or tech. departments apply when trying to utilize one of the web’s main web traffic driving techniques : Search Engine Optimization. As I see it [...]