Category Archives: Search Engine Optimization

Categories vs. Tags

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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 read a [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Turn Your Posts Into Google Magnets

My other blog, No Meat Athlete, got 303 (update: over 600 per day now) visits from search engines yesterday.  It's been around for a little more than six months.  If you're getting those kind of search engine numbers (or were at six months, if your blog is older than that), then you don't need this [...]

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