SEO Lessons from Google

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008

Often SEO advice is provided by non-professionals and well qualified as a bad joke, so who better to take your SEO lead from than Google, the masters of the black art, if for no other reason than for the fact that they rule the search engine market with as much as 80% of the search [...]

Joy That Can Be Seen and Heard (by Apple)

Monday, December 8th, 2008

In a follow up to my posting on “Apple’s Credit Crunch Christmas“, it seems that the onslaught from Apple is unrelenting. There isn’t a day that goes by that doesn’t see a marketing email, all gift wrapped and pretty, sitting in my inbox from yours truly. Whereas last time I commented on how Apple was [...]

Finding Inspiration For Blog Posts & Articles

Friday, December 5th, 2008

Sometimes you may feel like the fountain of ideas has dried up and although necessity is the mother invention, said phrase may well not ring quite true. So How do you keep ideas fresh and in line with what people want? How do you even go about finding ideas to form posts from?

Place Higher in Google with Rage’s iWeb SEO Tool

Friday, November 21st, 2008

If iWeb is designed to make the process of creating web pages easy, then Rage Software’s recently released iWeb SEO tool is designed to make the process of Search Engine Optimization for iWeb easier too.
As those who have been following my articles will know, I have often bemoaned the general joke that is the HTML [...]

Online Marketing & Sales Tips for Authors and Books

Thursday, October 2nd, 2008

So you have the book, you finally got it published and you even have a web site. Where to go from there? How do you make sure your book reaches a critical mass online? How do you generate interest and reach out to the prospective audience? In this article I cover a few points of [...]

eCommerce & Affiliates Made Easy with iWeb ‘08

Friday, September 26th, 2008

With the advent of iLife ‘08, and in particular the newest version of iWeb, it has become a lot easier to build an ecommerce site.

Until now you had to use tools such as iWebMore and iWeb Enhancer to add snippets of HTML code, which even then had to be post-processed after generating the site [...]

How To Setup 301 Redirects for a Page or Entire Domain

Monday, August 4th, 2008

301 Redirects are a big part of SEO and making sure that (A) the search engine bots find your content correctly, and (B) understand that the old page or domain is the same as the new one and thus combine the overall rank statistics to the one location. In essence the 301 redirect simply [...]

How To Write A Good Blog Post Title

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

A blog post title is just that, not a book, not a word, not a memoir, but a title. It amazes me how many people will seem to write an entire blog entry in the course of the title of their post and then continue to harp on about the aforementioned topic for another [...]

Free Book = Free Marketing … The Pirate’s Dilemma

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008

As of June 8th, The Pirate’s Dilemma by Matt Mason, is now freely available online in eBook format for whoever and whomever wishes to share the book. In a move that signals marketing tactics for the 21st century and beyond, the author and publisher have both agreed that they should make the electronic format freely [...]

Finding The Right SEO Keyword Combination

Saturday, June 21st, 2008

To some the process of SEO is a black art and like snake oil. That being said, it is clear that the choice of keywords in relevant positions on your pages does help drive traffic to your blog or web site. Keywords are just a small part, but a critical part in the wider context [...]