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Submission of Blogs to Google News – Response

ryan — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 15:04:27 +0000

Google Blog news Submission :: Response within 8 hours!

Re: [#610358489] Promoting understanding of the level and potential for political discourse as it relates to Connecticut’s 2010 Senate elections.

Thank you for your interest in Google News. We’ve received your suggestion and we’re unable to include it in Google News at this time. We don’t include sites that are written and maintained by one individual. We currently only include articles from sources that could be considered organizations, generally haracterized by multiple writers and editors, availability of organizational information, and accessible contact information.

If you have additional questions, please visit our Help Forum at:
google.com/support/forum/p/news?hl=en

We appreciate your taking the time to contact us and will log your site for consideration should our requirements change.

When I get organized, I’ll submit my blog to google news again and see if I meet their quality guidelines. check out the blog in question, fact-based report on CT 2010 senate election debates. It’s definitely a one author show so far!

Build a Successful Blogging Site

ryan — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 20:57:37 +0000

What are the best resources to help build a successful blogging site?
- Tony W. M / San Jose, CA

Depends on what you mean by success.

If you are seeking high search engine rankings, then you are going to want to use the All in oneSEO tool and spend time optimizing your posts and pages.

If you are seeking advertising revenue, then you need to form a model for how you will get traffic and research what kinds of advertising is most likely to perform well from a revenue generation perspective.

If you are building a site simply to express yourself, then what you define as success could be as simple as easy maintenance.

Wordpress Blog Affiliate Banners

ryan — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:53:57 +0000

how do you post 125 X 125 affiliate banners on your wp blog? Is there a plugin to help?
- Steve R. 28 / M / Belpre, OH

Two possibilities:

1) Your Wordpress version and theme will have a plugin for specifying the images to put on the ad section in the sidebar

2) You can edit the sidebar directly in PHP using the built-in editor on your WP dashboard.

Either method should work fine. If you are implementing affiliate code with the image, I recommend option 2, where you edit the PHP/HTML directly in wordpress, any plugin or helper may corrupt javascript or other code necessary to attribute your affiliate traffic.

Aardvark – Why tags in social media are so important

ryan — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:58:35 +0000

Can someone tell me why ‘tags’ in social media are so important? Is it mainly for SEO? Is it up to a blogger to add tags? How do tags help me as a user?

- Meg C. F / Washington, DC

Tags are most closely associate with blog postings and pages. It’s imperative that if you are blogging to get search engine traffic, that you tag your articles/posts. They are handy for the user in that, most blogs, provide the ability for users to browse tags by page.

For example: http://blog.spidergourmet.com/tag/aardvark/

You can see the answers I have provided to aardvark users that I tagged appropriately. They function similarly to categories, the real difference is in how people use them.

Aardvark Question – How do I get a Website?

ryan — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 20:43:56 +0000

I am a doctor and want a website, how do I get this created and marketed? – Brian, Chicago,IL

Hi Brian,

The quickest, cheapest way to get started is to:
1) identify the primary keyword for which you want to be visible.
2) Purchase domain with that keyword in it, and hosting for your website (~$75/yr for both at Godaddy)
3) Setup Wordpress on your new hosting, pick a free wordpress theme and get that uploaded. Make sure you give your new blog the same name as your keyword-focused domain.
4) Add content to your blog about your chosen keywords
5) Do a Google local business submission

Then give it about 1-2 weeks for the website to get spidered and see where you rank. Apply SEO principles as necessary.

Feel free to give me a call to talk through this, I am EST so either right now or tomorrow morning. Once you’re setup, the advantage to Wordpress is that you can do most, if not all, of the management yourself.

All the best!

Ardvark Question – What Makes a Wordpress theme SEO Friendly?

ryan — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 14:12:52 +0000

“What makes a Wordpress Theme a SEO Friendly Theme? What are the key points?”

As opposed to the theme, it’s much more about how you customized it. I definitely recommend using the All-in-one-SEO pack, it’s easy to find. Like any other website, you want to make sure you do the following:

Change your permalinks to use the pagename variable. With this enabled, you can set individual posts and pages to have tightly controlled keyword-specific filenames

Take advantage of the RSS widget built into the newer versions of WordPress. This will get you fresh content right out of the box.

Take advantage of common footer linking. I’d say the most important factor is that the theme you pick doesn’t have an encoded footer, meaning the author of the theme gives it away for free because it carries text links for their interests.

After you’ve got the above in place, the next step is to make sure you have unique content concerning your keywords. Of course you’ll need to get links to your website and there’s a few ways to go about doing this but to make those decisions effectively, you must examine your goals and keywords.