Image via Wikipedia It took me a while to understand the difference between categories and tags. For the first few weeks of my blog's life, it was a mess, organizationally speaking. I used to tag every post with "vegetarian," for example, even posts that had nothing to do with food! It all clicked when I…
Category Archives: Search Engine Optimization
Where is the Link Love?
Did you know that Google and other search engines pay attention to the number of incoming links to your site? The more websites that link back to you, the more likely Google is to take notice and in return, give you a better ranking in their search results. We all want Google to think highly…
Are Your Links Causing Leaks?
It's useful to think of your blog as a bucket, and your search engine visibility as a valuable liquid that it contains. When you link to another blog or website, a little bit flows out of a hole in your bucket into theirs. When someone links to you, a little bit comes back. The bigger…
Turn Your Posts Into Google Magnets
When I started paying attention to search engine optimization (actually, when I bought an e-book I'll tell you about at the end of the post), my blog No Meat Athlete was getting around 30 search visits per day. As you can see from the Google Analytics graph above, I went from 29 search visits on…