A brand new website — and part of Romeo the Cat’s empire — has launched, and it’s aimed at corralling all pet contests, giveaways, and free ways (like FreeKibbleKat.com) to help animals in need from across the blogosphere. Although it’s not a coupoon site, in the future it may feature rebates for freebies or BOGO [ Read More ]
Most bloggers to whom I speak would like to Build a Better Business Blog by getting some purrfessional purrsonalized one-on-one coaching from experts to help them take their blogs to the next level. Others would love to learn how to be more efficient in their development efforts so they actually have time left over to [ Read More ]
Today there’s a big pawty afoot over at BlogPaws: the first annual BlogPawty! Grab a nipitini and put on your dancing shoes to boogie with fellow pet bloggers and maybe win a pair of passes to BlogPaws 2012 in Salt Lake City! This will be your single-best opportunity to get into BlogPaws free, so drop [ Read More ]
You’ve spent time over the last couple of weeks pondering your blogging goals for 2012. Now what? Goals are fairly easy to figure out. But charting a road map to get there is a little more difficult. Maybe you want to grow your readership by 10% per month or learn more about SEO … how [ Read More ]
SEO Bootcamp in the Cat Bloggers’ Lounge is wrapping up with some odds-n-ends guidelines and tips that will continue to help you supercharge your SEO efforts. WordPress Plugins: I LOVE WordPress SEO by Yoast. It displays how your entry will look in Google search results and he performs an analysis of each post so that [ Read More ]
We’re nearly at the end of our SEO Bootcamp for Cat Bloggers, and today we’re veering away from discussing the text in your posts, and show you how images can be a SEO goldmine for you. Image (vs. text) searches have been uptrending, and there are five reasons that images are a SEO goldmine and [ Read More ]
SEO relevance has come up as we’ve discussed keywords and phrases, internal and external links, and focusing your content. Today we’ll talk about SEO relevance in more depth, but not in the way you might expect…. SEO experts spend a lot of time evaluating the ratio of keywords to content. As a rule, your content [ Read More ]
When bloggers discuss SEO, the focus tends to be on keywords (we discussed where to stash SEO keywords on Day 1 or our SEO Bootcamp). But jamming your content, titles and every nook and cranny with as many keywords and key phrases as possible won’t necessary get you ranked higher on Search Engine Results Pages [ Read More ]
This week in The Cat Bloggers’ Lounge, Mousebreath is shedding light on SEO in terms any cat blogger can understand. On Day 1 we discussed all of the places within your post to stash relevant keywords to improve SEO. Yesterday we covered whether external links undermine your SEO efforts. Today we’ll cover what may be [ Read More ]
This week in the Cat Bloggers’ Lounge, we’re showering you with tips on improving your Search Engine Optimization results. Yesterday we covered key words and all of the unexploited places you can stash them. Today’s topic is external links. It’s a greatly misunderstood topic. Back in the day, when hypertext links were new, websites linked [ Read More ]
This week in the Cat Bloggers’ Lounge, we’re going to shower you with tips on improving your Search Engine Optimization techniques. What is SEO? Here’s the official definition of SEO (via Wikipedia): Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the visibility of a website or a web page in search engines via the [ Read More ]
Even if you have not been able to attend a WordPress WordCamp, you can still “attend” all the sessions via video on wordpress.tv. It’s a great resource for all WP bloggers, no matter what your level of expertise. There are tracks for techno geeks, designers and content developers. This session — Tom Catallini: Tom’s Top [ Read More ]
